It’s really hard to believe that someone watched this and thought what the world needs is to make this film into a musical. I don’t normally enjoy colorizations of black and white films, but I don’t think Audrey Jr works without color, even if the colorization I watched did occasionally include people with grey hands. In comparing to the musical, this version also has a handful of minor characters that didn’t make it in the future adaptations. While they sometimes add interesting background, particularly in the case of Seymour’s mother, they do muddy the overall plot a bit and pull the attention away from Audrey Jr.

Here is another entry from the Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection that had spawned The Incredible Shrinking Man. This one is a more in the ‘It Came From Space’ genre. What sets this one apart, and also really made it most enjoyable for me, is that the monsters aren’t humanoid beings trying to take over the […]

Cold, detached, on-edge George Clooney isn’t my favorite version. I may have indeed watched this film before, but I don’t have any recollection even after watching. There isn’t much new here that adds to the genre of the assassin who is afraid he has lost his humanity and is ready to get out of the […]

As the presumptive titled character, I really thought that Jean Harlow would be the focus in this film. Instead we have Robert Williams as a rough reporter who is swept away and falls in love with socialite Jean, who wants nothing more but to smooth down his rough edges. I enjoyed Williams’s acting and was sad to discover that this is his last film; he died right after the film’s premiere. Loretta Young was so beautiful in the 30s that I had a hard time suspending belief that her friend wouldn’t have run away with her long before ever meeting Harlow’s character.

My third of the four James Stewart – Margaret Sullavan pairings, this one has them again joined by Frank Morgan. I generally enjoy World War II films from the era before the United States entered the war, if anything to try to figure out what took us so long, but this one didn’t really pull me in. It all felt a bit too American as if it wasn’t just filmed in Utah and Idaho but also set there, barring the swastikas everywhere. The movie feels a bit like propaganda pushing how awful the Nazis are for picking on our heroes, though they did manage to get both Roberts Stack and Young on their side, but it did manage to piss off Hitler and the chemistry between Stewart and Sullavan is beautiful so there are wins there. Sad that this is their last movie together, though I still have one more to watch and annual Christmas viewings of The Shop Around the Corner.